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The Not A Virgin secret is also true for the show's bride, but the extra twist is that her dead husband was an ardent Communist rebel and so is she, which is why her family had to ship her away for a hasty marriage to hide her from the government! She is also a dab hand with a pistol and helps fight Lin Chung's evil opium-smuggling cousins.

(I am very sad the show doesn't have a Mrs Butler.)

Yeah, Jane is originally presented/presenting as a plucky street urchin who's run away from a thieves' gang, but several episodes later a woman starts lurking around Miss Fisher's house with big sad eyes and it turns out this is her mother who's just been discharged from hospital, who is very nice and loves her daughter very much but also is tuberculitic and has unfortunate bouts of paranoia and and a tendency to almost let the house burn down in the middle of the night.

TV show Miss Fisher ends up adopting or employing a bunch of people in the first three episodes until they fill up the cast roster, at which point they start needing to find other solutions for problems that clearly would have been solved by her adopting or employing somebody if the show had Infinite Budget for Supporting Actors. A lot of people move temporarily into her house for the course of an episode and conveniently find somewhere else to be or something else to do by the time the hour wraps up, and I think a couple of them get kicked over to be on Aunt Prudence's Staff so we can be assured that they're doing okay but won't see them around ...

The season three arc-plot is all about Miss Fisher's Deadbeat Dad lurking around Australia and refusing to go home and stealing her money and acting generally shady while a mysterious man accuses him of dark secrets and murders people in his vicinity, and in the final episode it turns out the mysterious man is his shellshocked cousin and Miss Fisher's Deadbeat Dad Did Nothing Wrong. Profoundly unsatisfying tbh!